Image uploading

I’m Building an application where i need users to be able to upload an
image with blog posts,
and in another section I need the user to upload multiple images.

From what I’ve read “attachment_fu” is the way to go,
but there are no tutorials for it, the main tutorial page is down.
I’m New to ROR, and pretty much have a grip on controllers, models and
views, but the image uploading thing is greek to me.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

2007/11/6, shybe [email protected]:

From what I’ve read “attachment_fu” is the way to go,
but there are no tutorials for it, the main tutorial page is down.
I’m New to ROR, and pretty much have a grip on controllers, models and
views, but the image uploading thing is greek to me.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

have a look at http://uploadcolumn.rubyforge.org/.
It works pretty well and is documented.

HTH,
Beate

Here is some stuff on attachment_fu:
http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2007/02/24#FileUploadFu

I’ve decided that the _fu part stands for File Upload and probably not
Kung Fu or FuBar.

If you search this newsgroup for attachment_fu you’ll see lots of
people have questions about it. There is something that is not easy.
I’m running into trouble with the simple migration it requires.

And I can’t fix it and this group is no help (yet).

fredistic

shybe ha scritto:

Thanks in advance.

Try uploadcolumn plugin (http://uploadcolumn.rubyforge.org/) it works
very well
(it’s very simple and powerful, I use it in production and it solved me
a big problem I had: mass loading of images from a legacy db…)

Good luck !

On 06 Nov 2007, at 15:18, nas wrote:

I am using acts_as_attachment plugin and its working great.

Check it out at http://sphred.com/profile/3-Mel-Frogley or if you want
to check it thoroughly then signup first on www.sphred.com and then
try to upload/delete/update your image after logging in

I have also written a little tutorial on how to use it
How to get acts_as_attachement plugin working on mac osx – Nasir Jamal
working-on-mac-osx/
since we need some other stuff before using it.

attachment_fu is the successor of acts_as_attachment and should be
used instead of it. a_a_a has serious downsides, especially when it
comes to loading files in memory instead of using tempfile and being
tied to the very memory hungry rmagick. Attachment_fu’s code is a lot
cleaner too. I’m still using a_a_a in some of our old apps (i had to
hack it, so i need to reimplement my changes as they are very
specific for our needs), but i plan to switch all of them over to
attachment_fu, possibly changing the processor to imagescience if
it’s just thumbnailing that’s involved.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

I am using acts_as_attachment plugin and its working great.

Check it out at http://sphred.com/profile/3-Mel-Frogley or if you want
to check it thoroughly then signup first on www.sphred.com and then
try to upload/delete/update your image after logging in

I have also written a little tutorial on how to use it

since we need some other stuff before using it.

thannx peter, I will check that